De Pijp
Walk-in brunch cafés
Hoftuin
Garden-side tables
NDSM
Waterfront breakfast or lunch
Prices
Compare named dishes
In short
Choose an Amsterdam brunch by neighbourhood, menu and seating policy. De Pijp offers walk-in cafés, Hoftuin has a garden-side restaurant with reservations, and Pllek adds the NDSM waterfront. A late start changes the choice: some kitchens serve breakfast plates all day, while others switch to a separate lunch menu.
- De Pijp: Bakers & Roasters and Little Collins work without ordinary reservations.
- Hoftuin: Dignita’s kitchen starts at 10:00; the doors open half an hour earlier.
- NDSM: Pllek serves breakfast until 12:00 and lunch until 15:30, with Sunday lunch on a walk-in basis.
- Budget: named egg, pancake and toast dishes below cost around €13.50–€17 before drinks or additions; larger plates cost more.
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Brunch in De Pijp: Little Collins and Bakers & Roasters
Little Collins sits on Eerste Sweelinckstraat between Albert Cuypstraat and Sarphatipark. Bakers & Roasters is farther north, on Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat. Both are useful De Pijp choices, but they have their own room, menu and queue; choose one rather than treating their addresses as interchangeable.
Little Collins
Neighbourhood café near Sarphatipark, with changing brunch dishes, baking and locally roasted coffee.
Bakers & Roasters
New Zealand–Brazilian café serving egg dishes, pancakes, baking and coffee on Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat.
Little Collins opens at 09:00 daily, closes at 16:00 and lists its kitchen until 15:30. It describes the published brunch menu as an example because dishes change with its sourcing. Go for that café’s current cooking, rather than arriving with an old photograph of a dish that may no longer be served.
Bakers & Roasters serves its breakfast and brunch dishes throughout the daytime service. Its De Pijp branch is walk-in only, with a waitlist. The operator lists closing at 15:00 Monday–Friday and 16:00 at weekends. The same company has a second branch at Kadijksplein, where a limited number of reservations is available; that exception does not apply to De Pijp.
For an Albert Cuyp visit, remember that the regular market trades Monday–Saturday. On Sunday you can still combine brunch with Sarphatipark and the neighbourhood streets, but not with the usual rows of market stalls. This is a practical difference between a Saturday food-and-market morning and a Sunday brunch.
Garden-side brunch at Dignita Hoftuin
Dignita Hoftuin is at Nieuwe Herengracht 18A beside the H’ART Museum area. Its setting belongs to the eastern canal belt, making it a different choice from crossing town to De Pijp. Choose it when a garden-side meal fits a day around the Amstel and the nearby museums.
Dignita Hoftuin
Garden-side restaurant beside the H’ART Museum area, serving brunch dishes on Nieuwe Herengracht.
The doors open at 09:30, but the kitchen begins at 10:00. Food service ends at 15:00 on weekdays and 15:30 at weekends; the restaurant itself stays open until 16:00 or 16:30 respectively. Reserve the actual meal time rather than reading the door-opening time as the first cooked breakfast.
Its current menu mixes egg dishes, toast, pancakes and plant-based choices. For example, Bright Side Eggs is €15 and Green and Gold is €17 on the menu checked on26 October 2026. The first is an egg dish on sourdough; the second combines poached eggs, potato rösti, avocado and sweetcorn salsa. Optional additions change the price.
Dignita is connected to a foundation that supports people in vulnerable circumstances through training and work opportunities. That social-enterprise background is part of the restaurant’s identity. It does not mean every menu item is vegan: use the dish labels and ingredients when choosing.
Waterfront brunch at Pllek on the NDSM wharf
For an IJ-side brunch, Pllek at TT Neveritaweg 59 combines a restaurant with the industrial setting of NDSM. The breakfast and lunch menus overlap briefly, which is useful if one person wants eggs and another wants a lunch dish.
Pllek
Container-built restaurant on the NDSM waterfront, with breakfast plates, lunch, dinner and a large terrace.
Breakfast runs 09:30–12:00; lunch runs 11:30–15:30. The breakfast menu includes pancakes, scrambled-egg toast, shakshuka and a vegan avocado toast, while the lunch menu adds different sandwiches and larger dishes. Arriving at 13:00 does not mean that the entire breakfast menu remains available.
The seating rules are especially important here. You can reserve indoor tables only; the terrace is walk-in. On Sunday at lunch, Pllek does not take reservations, and the same lunch restriction applies on both days of an IJ-Hallen weekend. A restaurant reservation is therefore not a terrace reservation or a way around those specific days.
Pllek accepts card payments, not cash. Groups larger than eight use a separate group arrangement. If you are combining the meal with a wharf visit, choose the ferry destination NDSM. The Buiksloterweg ferry near EYE reaches a different part of Noord, rather than delivering you to Pllek.
Pancakes and apple pie: a different kind of late breakfast
A brunch does not have to mean an eggs-Benedict plate. In the canal belt, you can choose a Dutch pancake meal or a café breakfast with pie as a separate sweet order. The style and portion are different, so compare the meal you want rather than putting all pancakes into one category.
The Pancake Bakery
Seated pancake restaurant in a historic canal-side warehouse, serving large sweet and savoury Dutch pancakes.
Winkel 43
Noordermarkt café known for apple pie, with breakfast, lunch and a terrace beside the western canals.
The Pancake Bakery on Prinsengracht 191 opens at 09:00. It takes reservations for groups of six or more; smaller groups visit without a reservation. Its large thin Dutch pancakes are different from the smaller American-style blueberry stacks at Bakers & Roasters. Choose the filling and style before comparing the headline price.
At Winkel43, a slice of apple pie is listed at €5.30, with cream separately at €1, while the breakfast special is €10.50. If you want a substantial first meal, decide whether you want that breakfast, an omelette or simply pie and coffee. The café’s Sunday opening is 09:00, compared with07:00 on Monday and Saturday.
Amsterdam brunch prices: named dishes and additions
These are examples from the operators’ published menus, checked on 26 October 2026. They help compare a portion and format; they are not set menus including a drink. Menu changes and any additions should be checked when ordering.
The same café can also offer a larger plate. For example, Bakers & Roasters lists its Kiwi Brekkie at €25.50 and Vege Brekkie at €20. A three-piece pancake stack is therefore not a reliable estimate for every order at that address. Coffee, juice and extras also need to be included in the actual meal total.
For a plant-based brunch, compare named dishes rather than the appearance of the room. Pllek’s avocado toast is listed as vegan before an optional egg. At Bakers & Roasters, the menu includes a beans-and-tempeh toast, while the Vege Brekkie contains eggs and halloumi. Vegetarian and vegan are different choices here.
A Sunday brunch around De Pijp, Hoftuin or the IJ
Use the meal as an anchor for one part of Amsterdam. The following are alternatives, not a single itinerary: moving between all three would turn brunch into a cross-city journey. Choose the district that fits the rest of the day.
De Pijp and Sarphatipark
Start with Little Collins or Bakers & Roasters, then keep the walk around Sarphatipark and the streets of De Pijp. On Saturday the Albert Cuyp market can be part of the route; on Sunday the regular market stalls are absent.
Hoftuin and the Amstel
Choose Dignita for a meal from 10:00, then continue towards the Amstel or a separately booked nearby museum. The garden-side setting and eastern canal location are the reasons to choose this cluster rather than a De Pijp queue.
NDSM and the waterfront
Choose Pllek when you are already spending time on the wharf. Sunday lunch is walk-in, and market weekends have their own restrictions. Keep the ferry crossing and the walk from the landing in the plan instead of treating NDSM as the area immediately behind Centraal.
For a fixed museum entry later in the day, decide whether an unreserved meal fits the available interval. A queue at Little Collins, a reserved indoor table at Hoftuin and a Sunday walk-in at Pllek are different arrangements. Choosing the right one is more useful than assuming that every brunch venue can provide the same timing.
Frequently asked questions about brunch in Amsterdam
Can I reserve Little Collins or Bakers & Roasters in De Pijp?
Both De Pijp cafés operate without ordinary table reservations. Bakers & Roasters uses a waitlist. Its limited reservation option is at Kadijksplein, a different branch in the eastern centre.
Can I reserve Sunday brunch on Pllek’s terrace?
No. Pllek only takes reservations for indoor tables, the terrace is walk-in, and Sunday lunch itself is walk-in. Lunch reservations are also unavailable on both days of IJ-Hallen weekends.
Is Pllek’s breakfast menu available all afternoon?
No. Its published breakfast service is 09:30–12:00 and lunch is 11:30–15:30. Choose the menu for the time you actually arrive.
Does a vegetarian brunch mean a vegan dish?
No. Bakers & Roasters’ Vege Brekkie contains eggs and halloumi; Eggs Florentine contains eggs and hollandaise. Pllek separately lists a vegan avocado toast before any optional egg addition.
Earlier breakfasts and other Dutch food to try
For a meal before 09:00, compare the specific opening times in the breakfast guide. For Dutch pancakes, poffertjes, herring and other local dishes, use the food guide to distinguish the formats.
